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May. 17th, 2021

Been a bunch of small stuff on my mathematics blog lately, in part because I'm hoping to post something big on Wednesday. But the last couple weeks, if you've missed, then you've missed these:

And then in today's cartoon-watching from 60 years ago, 60s Popeye: Abdominal Snowman (it's not clear he even *has* abs), your Larry Harmon-produced kind of animation.


It may strike you that I didn't take many pictures in February 2021. Well, I really didn't take many in March. Things got a bit better, photo-wise, in April, as we did an actual thing (spent Easter with [personal profile] bunnyhugger's parents) and spring made it interesting to photograph blocks of nature and all that. Still, it's very clear that I'm going to catch up to real time before, like, our first amusement park visit of the year. And what am I going to do then?

... I don't know. I'm nervous.

Anyway, to March!

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Seen while walking around and passed a house being cleaned out and tossing everything into the dumpster: a Fisher-Price castle that I had as a kid too!


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Isn't that a great little toy set? It was a favorite for a long time. This model's seen better days, alas.


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[personal profile] bunnyhugger photographs the sidewalk stamps of Lansing on her blog, and she's always curious about interesting ones. I spotted this one near the Armory and have not the faintest idea how this is even possible. But DAY (whoever they are) always has the most baffling stamps.


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And now here's another baffling sidewalk stamp. See BunnyHugger's review and discovery of stuff about how stamps are made.


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From our Easter trip to Fabiano's: the three-foot-tall solid chocolate Easter bunny was back, after an understandable absense in 2020.


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Solid. Chocolate. Yeah.


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We finally came to the end of an ancient bottle of soy, one of about 18 bottles of soy sauce we've got. The last bits of it crystallized and who knew they did that?


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More soy crystals. I suppose it's really salt crystals with a soy coloring but, still, wow.


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Force field surrounding a stick. So we have buckets of water to change out the fish's tanks downstairs. I drop a stick in them so that if any bugs or animals fall into the buckets they have a chance to get out again. And then ... this happened.


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Another stick protected by a force field. It must be some cellulose partially dissolving but not completely loose from the stick? In any case it's weird and unearthly.


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[personal profile] bunnyhugger brought some of the pepper plants from last year inside to winter over, as they will, and as often happens they tried growing peppers indoors.


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The flower that would go on to become another winter pepper.


Trivia: Jay Ward and Alex Alexander's first hire, as animator, for Television Arts Productions (which would make Crusader Rabbit) was Gerald Ray, former Disney animator. Source: The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, and Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose, Keith Scott.

Currently Reading: Miscellaneous comic books.

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